Warbird Information Exchange

read in the paper that an inert ww 2 practice torpedo was dug up at a construction site in phily. naturally nobody new if it was live or not so the bomb squad was called. upon their arrival they found 2 construction worker schmucks sitting on the thing drinking beer!! the site was a former naval depot or training facility. it was deemed inert, so i hope it gets cleaned up & sent to a museum.

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

Send it to the WW2 museum in N.O.

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

another find announced in 9 /8 /10 newspaper. somebody included a u.s. .45 pistol w/ a full but detached magazine & an inert ww 2 era pineapple grenade mixed in with other stuff as a donation to a goodwill industries charity store.

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

The Torpedo was just a welding tank mocked up to look like one. Pretty funny story. When the police got there , a bum was sitting on it and claimimg it was his and he was going to salvage it for the scrap money, Trouble was he couldn't budge it! Cops were laughing their asses off over it.

i have a neighbor that is way serious about scrapping. he was hurting for that homeless dude

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-recovering Viper crew chief
-AWACS driver/soon-to-be A-26 driver
-displaced Philadelphian